Sunday, 7 June 2015

William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)

William Powell Frith, The Railway Station, 1862

… no one has experienced before it one half-second of aesthetic rapture… "Paddington Station" is not a work of art; it is an interesting and amusing document.
Bell, Clive (1914) ‘The Aesthetic Hypothesis’, in Frascina, F. and Harrison, C. (1982) Modern Art & Modernism: a Critical Anthology, London: Chapman, p71

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